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[service] [request]: NLB targetgroup attributes for nginx controller

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**Tell us about your request**
We followed below and created an ingress controller with aws nlb

https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/blob/main/deploy/static/provider/aws/deploy.yaml#L334

I also added one more annotation to have an internal nlb..
service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-internal: "true"

The problem we have now is, we have a EKS cluster of 150 nodes and the NLB target group is of type instance and I'm not able to use type IP as mentioned here

https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/aws-load-balancer-controller/v2.2/guide/service/nlb/#ip-mode_1

With this all the requests are coming to all worker nodes in cluster and internally being routed via kube proxy to ingress pods, which means if I need to make a change on high performance tuning I will have to make it on all nodes

We want to have an NLB backed up with only ingress pods so that load balancer only sends the requests directly to ingress pods and avoid this hop of getting all requests from worker nodes -> kube-proxy -> ingress pods

Is it possible with current setup are we missing anything here?

**Which service(s) is this request for?**
EKS

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Start with deploy/static/provider/aws/deploy.yaml around line 334 and compare the current NLB annotations with the AWS Load Balancer Controller documentation for NLB IP mode. Confirm how the EKS service currently selects instance targets and determine the required controller or manifest change for targeting ingress pods directly. Done means a documented, supported setup that avoids routing through every worker node.

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Tech stack
aws, kubernetes, nginx
Domain
cloud, infrastructure, networking
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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